Support senior team members during interviews with cities and transit agencies.
Generate compelling original content by ascertaining a potential partner's needs and deploying your familiarity with Via’s technology and operational capabilities, transit norms, and the latest innovations from across the industry.
Absorb complex product specifications and distill into clear, easily-digestible prose.
Skillfully manage communications with potential partners over the phone and email.
Conduct rigorous research on global mobility trends by analyzing news stories, new service announcements, scopes of work, and other forms of information and synthesizing findings into insightful commentary.
Lead competitive procurements from beginning to end -- through evaluation, creation of exceptional proposal content, review, and submission.
Requirements
strategic thinking
cross-functional
undergraduate
advanced degree
writing
consulting
Hone your strategic thinking skills by coordinating with Via’s Partnerships, Expansion, and Finance teams to develop strategies for winning high-stakes, competitive procurements.
Able to quickly switch gears to coordinate with teams across the company and team members from associate-level to C-suite.
An academic high-achiever, preferably in the humanities, social sciences, or another field that requires regular long-form writing and argumentation (undergraduate degree required; advanced degree preferred).
It’s a plus if you have created and published an original and thoughtful essay, op-ed, or other piece of content; bonus points if it is on the subject of technology, transit, urbanism, mobility, business strategy, or a related topic.
It’s a plus if you have prior experience at a startup, transportation consulting firm, management consulting firm, or in the public sector.
It’s a plus if you have led (or played a leading role in) the development and success of a business or public sector proposal/pitch/deal/etc.
Meticulous and strategic; you can pay attention to every detail in a complex project while, at the same time, relating each of them to the big picture in a coherent way.
An exceptional writer and communicator with an instinctive appreciation for tone and structure; your colleagues have told you that they enjoy reading your work (and maybe you’ve even won awards).
Benefits
All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data
Salary Range: $85,000-$160,000
We are proud to offer a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including free medical plans and 401K matching.